PREFERENCE ON TEA
MOTION FOR REMOVAL DEFEATED.
Australian and N.Z. Cable Association- • LONDON, May 7.
In the House of Commons, Mr T.. Shaw (Labour) moved for the removal of Imperial preference on tea, of which 87 per cent, came from British colonies.
Mr Austen Chamberlain said the amendment was directed against • preference in general. The Government two years ago had accepted the pj-in-: cipie with respect to Imperial produce-, and all the Dominions had urged its acceptance. The amendment was negatived by 26:2 votes to 63. Mr Chamberlain resisted an amendment for the reduction of the tea, tax from tenpenc© to threepence, and" the amendment was negatived by 285 votes to 63.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZTIM19190514.2.49
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10279, 14 May 1919, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
112PREFERENCE ON TEA New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10279, 14 May 1919, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the New Zealand Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in